{"id":522,"date":"2014-02-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/2014\/02\/28\/poems\/"},"modified":"2014-02-28T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T08:00:00","slug":"poems-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2014\/02\/28\/poems-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a sampling of poems I wrote during Basic Training and AIT together known here as OSUT, One Station Unit Training. Each break indicates a different poem but having typed them all up I realize they can be read as an entirety to be one single poem. So read this how you will<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: lime;\">__________________________________________________________<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Living&#8217;s easy, dying&#8217;s hard<br \/>you fight like you care and kill like you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>That summer smell of death and rot,<br \/>that winter&#8217;s tomb and die-er&#8217;s plot,<br \/>Spring is life and fall is death,<br \/>all-in-all a twist of fate.<\/p>\n<p>Shadows on the walls of time<br \/>Darkness spreads and overthrows<br \/>All within its reach it kills<br \/>And in its time it brings the end.<\/p>\n<p>Wishes die and dreams are shattered,<br \/>say goodbye to all that mattered.<br \/>Life of rot and life in hell,<br \/>tell me that it&#8217;s just a tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a sampling of poems I wrote during Basic Training and AIT together known here as OSUT, One Station Unit Training. Each break indicates a different poem but having typed them all up I realize they can be read as an entirety to be one single poem. So read this how you will: __________________________________________________________ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-my-writing","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}